Which file system should I chose for running os x (panther). I would mainly being using final cut pro. I have two drives: 80gb (system drive) and a 300gb (video drive) should they both use the same file system? And which one(s) would be the best choice?
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Yeah, you really don't have much choice here. HFS+
If you have to do cross-platform work with the external, you might have to go with Fat32, but then you hit file size limits (4GB?), which won't do you much good with FCP.
Of course, you could always get MacDrive for the PC so it can read/write to HFS+ file systems.
If you have to do cross-platform work with the external, you might have to go with Fat32, but then you hit file size limits (4GB?), which won't do you much good with FCP.
Of course, you could always get MacDrive for the PC so it can read/write to HFS+ file systems.
No use for Unix file systems (ext2 or ext3 or whatever they use). Linux/Unix reads and writes most files systems pretty well, so I let Linux adapt to other systems rather than let OS X or Windows adapt to Linux. If you are only going to use a Mac, stick with HFS+.salils said:
grapes911 said:
Technically: UFS
I concur.. if going into this, you cannot definitively say to yourself "I need to use UFS with this Mac", then I wouldn't bother worrying about it.
yellow said:
Will OS X install on UFS or is it just there to format/read/write non-System hard drives?
Edit: Now that I think about it, it should. I think many versions of BSD still use UFS.
Hmm.. I don't quite know. Like you, my memory sucks (you had mentioned this in another thread I think). I believe that OS X will install on UFS, but there are some inherent oddities. Unfortunately, I cannot find any corroborating evidence at the moment.
yellow said:
I do know that I was asked as part of the Erase and Install option whether I wanted UFS or HFS+, so I got to imagine it would install on UFS as well.
kingjr3 said:
That's that assumption I'm working on as well. I do seem to remember some peculiarities with it however. Something about data forks? To Google!
Ah, right.. I've not played with the new HFS+(+) with case sensitivity in Tiger. I didn't see the need for me (personally).